Butterfly

How cool. I love butterflies, they are such beautiful creatures. Don't they have really short lifespans though? And, if you touch their wings they live even shorter time? Or is that just an old wives tale?

That is a Mourning Cloak butterfly, and I think you did a nice job with the picture. It is no wonder you have lots of butterflies, with all the flowers you grow. Some butterfly gardens could take a lesson from you.

That is a very pretty butterfly for sure... I haven't seen anything like that around my area either... I just did a image search on what the lady said above me and what kind it is... It sure looks exactly the same so I don't believe it is.. We have the typical kinds of butterflies.

That was a nice pic of the butterfly good shot. I notice that you take pretty good pics for your discussions that I have commented too. I don't know the species of the butterfly and where I live we have them. Different kind, but this year I have not see that may of them. Have a good one.

I have hardly seen any butterflies so far this year, the only thing that I have seen lots of in my garden are spiders. There are absolutely hundreds of them, luckily not always the huge monster ones but the little money spiders. Everytime I peg my washing out in the garden I always end up covered in them, I really hate the feel of their web on my skin. Great picture of the butterfly by the way.

this is so odd this year I have not seen hardly any' butterflies here and last year there were so many. once at the library I saw a whole swarm of monarch butterflies they were on their way to Mexico and to La Jolla Ca where they stop for awhile on their way to mexico. I saw one yellow butterbly the other day that looked like a cabbage moth, but that was the only one I have seen and thats so odd.

Bob, this was lovely. Of course I would have to drop by to comment on this one. I do love butterflies. They are lovely creatures.

That is a beautiful butterfly. I dont have to many of them in my yard right now, but I sure have bees.I wish it was butterflys instead.

I'll have to dig out my Audubon book of insects as maybe I'll be able to identify what butterfly that is. We don't have to many colorful butterflies here, just plain white or yellow ones, but every once in a while will see really beautiful ones....usually around September one sees the Monarch butterflies since they are then making their flight down south...This photo I have here is of an American Black Swallowtail that I "rescued"--yup...for some reason it couldn't fly well, so I didn't want to see it squished or something so took it home with me...it only lived over night, so guess it was an old butterfly on it's way out..but sure was able to take some great photos of it while it lived..This is a picture of it outside my apt. building just before I "rescued" it from dangers...hehe

Oh goodness, I'm glad you give them their privacy so they could finish what they were doing before you got your camera. hahahahaha

Hello dear Grandpa Bob. Quite often I can see butterflies flying around among the trees and grasses. They love to chase each other like a couple in love. I am so sorry that you missed snapping the wonderful time they are having. lol. Happy posting.

We get just a few different species of butterflys around my home. I am going to plant a butterfly garden soon and then I will be really excited to see if we get any different types of butterflys. I agree with the members that said it is a Mourning Cloak butterfly. I happen to have a book here that my daughter and I borrowed from the library and when I looked up in the book for this butterfly it is definitly what it is! It is beautiful you got a pretty good shot! They mate by each standing facing the opposite way with there back ends together. If they are startled while mating they will fly away still connected that way. So lol the next time I see this happen I will know what they are doing:)

That is a beautiful butterfly Grandpa Bob. I absolutly love them especially monarch's that have orange and black and yellow. That one you took looks like a monarch also. We have all sorts of butter fly's around here. I just wish I had my camera handy for some of them but never do grr... I hope you do get the chance to get a snap shot of some for next time.

Oh my !! I just love butterflies and dont see them as much as I would like to around my yard . I was thinking about getting one of those butterfly bushes . When I go hiking I always seem to run ito them . Lovely pic

i love butterfly... they are really a very beautiful creatures... unfortunately, i hardly see them here... i see them a lot back in my home country... but not here in australia... when i do see one, i really appreciate it as it really looks very beautiful... your picture is also very beautiful... but i don't know what species it is... so i can't help you... sorry... take care and have a nice day...

i haven't seen a butterfly doing "that thing" yet in person, all i see are dogs especially stray ones. lol. but i'm sure it will be wonderful to see them in action. i mean it will be a work of art right.

That is a great picture he almost looks like i can reach out and touch him. For awhile i was seeing butterflies every where, but not so much in the last several days.

Your post let me think of my child time. When I was young, I live near a garden. And sometimes I go to schoold and be off from school I see dragonfly near the small river. They are very small, flying around in the grass which at the river sid. I always want to catch them, and sometimes I catched one, then I give grass to it for eat. It's really eat it. Sometimes I put it alway, but sometimes the dragonfly is killed by me.:(

We have alot of butterflies in this area, and yellow seems to be the color I see the most. They love all the hibiscus bushes we have in this area. But what we really see alot of is hummingbirds. We get so many of those in late summer that our little town holds a huge hummingbird festival. Years ago when we were working on our yard and landscaping I had the sprinkler going in the grass since it was new sod. Suddenly a huge flock? of butterflies came and landed in the grass right under the sprinkler. Apparently they were thirsty. They were monarchs and were apparently migrating. There must of been 200 of them and they stayed in my yard all day. As I moved the sprinkler from area to area I was very careful to not step on them or injure them with the hose. The fun part was when they would land on me - my head, arms, shirt etc. They stayed in my yard until my young son came home to see them. Needless to say he was thrilled. We all felt blessed to have had that experience.

Oh my gawd. That's beautiful. :] I'm glad you got to snap some shots of them before they fluttered off though. ^^ The yellow is just so eye-catching against the browns and blacks. Thanks for sharing. :]